‘Batman Versus Superman’ Delayed Amid Rumors Ben Affleck Was Injured

Warner has announced a delay to their untitled Batman versus Superman movie. It will now open May 6th, 2016, which is the same day an unnamed Marvel tentpole will open and one week before X-Men: Apocalypse arrives. This is going to be a bloodbath. Disney, Warner, and Fox executives should duke this out like the rival news teams in Anchorman. Fox would be Steve Carell’s character in this scenario. Dumb as hell, but they’ll straight up murder you with a trident.

A Warner executive told The Wrap this ten month delay will “allow the filmmakers time to realize fully their vision, given the complex visual nature of the story.” I hope fully realizing their vision involves Zack Snyder putting more Jesus comparisons and penis-shaped ships into it.

We can’t help thinking this lends more credence to the rumors about Warner filming the Batman versus Superman movie and a Justice League movie back to back. Taking more time to prepare would make sense, if that were the case.

This news also dropped just a few hours after Batman-News reported Ben Affleck had injured his ribs in a skiing accident around Christmastime and wouldn’t be able to start filming until March at the earliest. Warner was going to start filming Batman versus Superman next month, but has delayed the start to the second quarter of this year. A Warner executive nonetheless denied the rumor of Affleck’s injury, telling Deadline, “We just want to do it right and need the time.”

I couldn’t be any less excited about Batman vs Superman. Especially after they revealed that they will basically take a shit on the Wonder Woman character by shoving her in some kind crappy minor role to be overshadowed once again by Batman and Superman

Why would it be so easy to make a Wonder Woman movie? You’ve got exactly zero villains with mainstream name recognition, a convoluted backstory, and I’m sorry to say, her superpowers are a jambalaya of wtf: a lasso that makes you tell the truth, bulletproof bracelets, super strength (maybe?) and an invisible jet.

That is just a tough package to sell, and that’s even leaving out the fact that men don’t want to see women kick ass, and if it’s a superhero movie, it needs to kick ass. I don’t know how you can make the argument without sounding sexist, but movies that predominantly feature a strong female action-oriented protagonist, (Salt, Tomb Raider, Sucker Punch) usually fizzle out or are universally panned despite high box office.

And Hunger Games doesn’t count, that’s not a single female lead, she loves a dude and he’s part of the story and she isn’t the same without him.

On the contrary. You got the Greek Mythology. You can easily makes someone like Hercules or Ares a villain. The backstory is easy to make. Amazons on their paradise island protected by the gods. And the powers are the easiest of all. None of that 60’s bullshit but the same way she was presented in the new cartoons. Flying,super strength, incredible toughness. You can make her basically a female Thor

Nobody gives a shit about reviews. It’s the money that matters and you can easily make money on this. And it’s so much easier to shit then that weird crap called Green Lantern

I’m on Muffinman12’s side, it would be much easier to make than you think.

Zero villains with mainstream name recognition? Neither did Iron Man prior to him getting his own movie. On this note, a Wonder Woman movie should take cue from the Lynda Carter series. Because you know who does have mainstream name recognition, though? Nazis. They provide a convenient reason for Steve Trevor to crash on the island (shot down in WWII), a convenient reason for Wonder Woman to leave Themyscira (help fight them), and are a very easy bad guy that doesn’t need much explaining and can’t be defeated in a day. And it gives way to one of her earlier archenemies, the Baroness Paula von Gunther.

Muffinman12 says she can be a female Thor. I say she can be that and a female Captain America at the same time. Playing up the Greek Mythology angle would be very smart. The Flash, Shazam, and even Aquaman are tied to Greek Mythology, and Dr. Fate and Hawkman are tied to the closely-related Egyptian Mythology. That’s a shared element that can be exploited if they want to tie several heroes together.

And they can just cut the weirder shit like the Invisible Jet out, like how every other comic book adaptation trims the fat of the source material.

And if Katniss doesn’t count as a single female lead, Wonder Woman wouldn’t either. Katniss’ relationship with whats-his-face isn’t any different from Diana’s relationship with Steve Trevor.

JLU was never Wonder Woman-centric. She had maybe the fewest episodes centered on her of the original seven members, and never had a multi-episode arc. You cut out Steve Trevor, you miss her origin, her reason for leaving Themyscira, and a good deal of her character. The reason that show could get away with it is because it focused on seven major superheroes; a solo Wonder Woman movie can’t afford to do the same.

Besides, even if they do cut Steve Trevor, he’d just be replaced by another love interest. Do you really expect them to make a superhero movie, any major movie at that, without some kind of romantic angle?

And if it makes a difference, Steve Trevor was included in “The Savage Time”.

I think this was a financially-motivated decision, and Warner Bros. is trying to get Marvel to back out of that date. The first weekend in May is a very lucrative one, especially for superhero movies, and WB probably realizes this pseudo-Justice League movie won’t have a chance of making its money back if it doesn’t open then. This also means the Batman/Superman movie won’t have to compete with Age of Ultron and the whole mess of other, huge blockbuster wannabes that are coming out in the summer of 2015.

They were disappointed with Man of Steel’s $600+ mil return (that’s how crazy Hollywood is now), so they probably want to make sure its sequel that’s more of a backdoor Batman reboot and pseudo-Justice League movie makes as much money as it possibly can. That means getting it out of the 2015 bloodbath, and giving it the best weekend to open (that first weekend in May).

They’re probably betting that more people will want to see the Justice League than whoever Marvel puts in that movie it’s currently opening against, and that Marvel will also realize this and back away from it. But with the Man of Steel’s divisive reception and the hostile reaction to Batfleck (my own opinions notwithstanding), that’s not as safe a bet as they think it is.

eh. In a couple of years the whole superhero movie thing will be over. movie stuff is cyclical. after that we’ll have some other genre. kind of like how i, frankenstein showed up too late to the party.